Example sentences of "was [verb] to [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expedition was not to start until the beginning of May , five days away , and she knew with absolute certainty that the word of it was to come to them from her . |
| 2 | Even when she was flying to me from various positions , the slightest disturbance in the landscape might distract her attention . |
| 3 | And he said he was unable to resist orders from a drowned boyhood friend called Delroy , who was speaking to him from ‘ beyond the grave ’ . |
| 4 | At first he sounded distant , as if he was calling to her from the basement of a big house , but he came nearer very quickly and suddenly he was shouting in her ear . |
| 5 | ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ was borne to them from the enemy lines , time and again — into the land between the opposing armies , through their own lines , and away into the darkness . |
| 6 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |
| 7 | Round about midnight our supper was delivered to us from the cookhouse in a thing called a ‘ haybox ’ . |
| 8 | Whoever was talking to us from Over Yonder , however , knew all the words . |
| 9 | If anyone from the group here met Kemp at 3 p.m. , it was n't Downes , because nine or ten of you here will willingly testify to the incontrovertible fact that he was talking to you from that time onwards . |
| 10 | I think in Britain we were all rather amazed at how much solidarity was extended to us from Europe . |
| 11 | Upon receipt of the executed sub-licence from the customer the film was dispatched to him from Hong Kong . |
| 12 | The Führer was sent to us from God , though not in order to save Germany , but to ruin it . |